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Marketing Channel Definitions
Marketing Channel Definitions

Description and grouping logic for the default marketing channels

Updated over a month ago

These marketing channels categorize the traffic that land directly on the dealer's T3 website.

Paid Search

Traffic from paid ads in search (Google Ad Words, Bing Ads, etc…)

  • Referring Domain = Any search engine

AND

  • utm_source, utm_medium or utm_campaign CONTAINS cpc, ppc, paid or retargeting

    • Or contains any of the default platform specific paid search parameter (gad, gad_source, gclid, gbraid,msclkid)

Paid Social

Traffic from paid ads on social media platforms

  • Referring Domain = Any social media platform

AND

  • utm_source, utm_medium or utm_campaign CONTAINS cpc, ppc, paid, social or retargeting, fbclid

Organic Search

Non-paid traffic from search engines, including Google My Business

  • Referring Domain = Any search engine

AND

  • No paid campaign tags/query params

OR

  • utm_source, utm_medium or utm_campaign CONTAINS gmb, googlemybusiness, organic

Organic Social

Non paid traffic from social media platforms

  • Referring Domain = Any social media platform

AND

  • No paid campaign tags/query params

Email

Traffic from email marketing newsletters

  • utm_source, utm_medium or utm_campaign CONTAINS email, newsletter

Display

Display/banner advertising

  • utm_medium CONTAINS display, banner, expandable, interstitial, cpm

Other Paid

Traffic with a marketing URL parameter, but does not fall into any of the other categories

  • Referring domain = Any non-social or non-search domain

  • UTM parameters are present

Direct

Traffic that likely bookmarked or typed the URL into the browser. Contains no referring domain or marketing URL parameters.

  • Referring Domain = (unspecified)

  • UTM parameters not present

Referral

Other traffic from websites. Includes traffic from any non-search or non-social website with no marketing URL parameters or any other indication that this is traffic from advertising

  • Referring Domain = Any non-social, non-search or not (unspecified) domain

  • UTM parameters not present

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